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A family meal in the last days of the First Age.

After being re-embodied in Aman, a Noldorin exile is faced with a difficult question.

Could Amras, son of Feanor, and Haldar, Haleth's brother, have met? 

I think they could--well, in my 'verse, at any rate.

Another glimpse of the early history of the Haladin, also featuring a very young Haleth. 

Written both for the "Strength and Beauty" challenge at SWG and for the Ambarussa day of Feanorian Week (Tumblr), although it features only Amras.

While living in Dorwinion, Maglor receives help in making a life-changing decision.

The tenuous relationship between the King and the Elendili is coming to its breaking point. When Isildur steals the fruit of Nimloth, what follows brings the already-heavy boot of tyranny down harder upon the Faithful - especially the gifted healer, Nilûphel.

They say Tyelkormo's first love was the forests and wild places. As ever, 'they' are wrong.

Caranthir does not trust easily and does not love easily, but Haleth told him in a different world they would be perfect.

7 related drabbles.

Fëanor feels sorry for himself. (Artwork with short, short story.)

B2MeM 2017 Prompt: Blue Path, Artwork, Realistic; also Tumblr Feanorian Week (Caranthir)
 

This is an micro-essay and a banner created as an extended introduction to a fic-rec list pulled together to celebrate Maglor’s Day on the Fëanorian Week celebration on Tumblr and initially inspired by the SWG Strength and Beauty March 2017 challenge.

Varda has not forgotten Middle-earth.

Findekáno thinks Maitimo is beautiful, through life and into death, though not always how others think of it.

7 connected drabbles.

"Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony,
but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful,
strength has much to do with the magic."  ~Herman Melville, Moby Dick

SWG March 2017 Strength and Beauty Challenge
B2MeM 2017 (blue path/artwork/secondary colors/Tolkien quote)
Fëanorian Week Tumblr 2017 - Day 1- Maedhros - > Adjusting/Coping, Beauty

Finrod is inspired to make a ring.

Celebrimbor takes refuge in memory. (Finding out wherever there is comfort there is pain, only one step away . . .)

Macalaurë often has trouble sleeping. After the birth of the new baby, he finds he’s not the only one.

Aragorn tells his son stories of the First Age

After the Noldor depart, Alqualondë is left reeling.

After the Battle of Unnumbered Tears, Maedhros revisits Fingon's fortress.

In 1997, Maglor visits the musical The Scarlet Pimpernel shortly after the premiere, and one song in particular catches his attention.

Also featuring Fëanorian Stubbornness.

He is reborn in Valinor, and they assume he died because the Kindi were incapable of standing against Morgoth, especially after their King and Princes were not.

(The Noldor forget that their relatives weren't left behind on the March because they were incapable, but because they didn't wish to come.)

Morgoth sells the concept of swords to the elves through his minions.

(Ah, er, contains a canon error. Mairon was not in Valinor at the same time as the elves.

However, i could just change the name of the evil maia and it would be compatible...)

On the eve of the Great Journey, Morwë discusses his doubts with Finwë.

The death scenes of Fëanor and Fingolfin parallel each other closely in plot, beginning with the rash pursuit of single combat with Morgoth. Yet the manner in which the narrator of The Silmarillion, Pengolodh, employs language and symbolism leads to two very different conclusions that likely served to advance Pengolodh's political and personal agenda. Written for B2MeM 2017 for the prompt "Analyze a Chapter or Passage" on the nonfiction (orange) path.

The degree of civilisation of a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

The night after Eöl’s execution, a young orphan sits in his mother’s room and waits for his fate to catch up to him.